My agrument is that fraud is committed to play with peoples emotions. It is a violoation of privacy and the scammers inability to respect privacy. Fraud is happening globally to people who sometimes don’t even know its happening to them until its too late. Fraud had been defined as wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain . There have been many cases of fraud online and credit card fraud. It has become more known globally due to introduction of credit and debit cards, it’s easier for people to fall into the trap of gangs and criminal masters. Cases like ordinary people simply at the ATM and there is a device put into the machine to scan the chip in the card given into the machine. There could be also a …show more content…
23 at 8:47 am in the Daily Emerald . “(Scams are) designed to get at your emotions” they are designed to make you upset or animated. The writer is right when he says that if the price is “too good to be true” it usually is. Students were the main focus of an online scam. The person would lure them in on a very good deal at a very low price. The article showed that students looking for accommodation were targeted, they gave them a student friendly rate through a fake advertisement “using images from [a] Craiglist ” to lure them in to make it look like a real and solid advertisement. The person who was scamming these college students hacked into the persons “personal information” by manipulating the “rental agreement” and disappeared with the student’s …show more content…
This is where the credit and debit card information is often stolen and sold on the Internet or the black-market. People often look up certain objects and get linked to websites known and unknown. They only want to find the cheapest option available for their chosen product. Usually a person can identify an unreliable website, but the websites that are well designed are the ones that need to be spotted more. Buying from such a website with a scammer as a tradesmen is hard to identify. You will find that their price is too good to be true but cheap, so people fall for it because they know it wont be at that price for long. They give their information online and purchase the product and it says it will arrive in ten to fifteen working days. The length of time is long but the scammer is has enough time to do what they want with that information given. The consumer forgets that they have ordered the product and then it gives the scammer time to take the money and more. The scammer could be in a completely different country that makes it harder to track them down. “Most of the scam reports that come in are through online and overseas (transactions)” said EPD Detective Steve Williams in the article that was